LOUISVILLE 



NINETEEM HUNDRED AMD FIVE 






JEFFERSON MONU^IENT 



Facts Regarding Louisville 



Population, 350,000, within a radius of six 
miles. 

Within 50 miles of the center of popula- 
tion of the United States. 

Property valuation, $150,000,000. 

A city of Beautiful Homes. 

Gas (artificial), $1 per 1,000 feet. 

Gas (natural), 60 cents per 1,000 feet. 

200 Churches, all denominations. 

A Magnificent Public Library and Art 
Museum. 

60 PubUc Day Schools. 

6 PubUc Night Schools. 

9 Kindergartens. 

8 Medical Colleges. 

2 Law Schools. 

3 Business Colleges. 

4 Theological Seminaries. 
1 College of Pharmacy. 

1 Dental College. 

10 Great Railroads enter here. 
Steamers reach 33 navigable rivers, and 

Gulf of Mexico. 

Three bridges across the Ohio river. 

Unexcelled transportation facilities. 

A Racing Center — fast mile track. 

A Bathing Beach and two Boat Clubs. 

TAX EXEMPTION TO NEW FAC- 
TORIES. 

CHEAPEST FUEL IN THE UNITED 
STATES. 

Lowest death rate. 

Largest banking capital in the South. 

Grandest Park System in the United 
States. 

Is the center of "Kentucky Hospitality" 
with a social life unsurpassed in the world. 

Leads the World in Jeans. 

Leads the World in Farm Wagons. 

Leads the World in Whisky. 

Leads the World in Sole Leather. 

Leads the World in Cement. 

Largest Tobacco Market in the World. 

Largest Tobacco Rehandlers in the 
World. 

Largest Tobacco Manufacturers in the 
World. 

Largest Plumbers' Supply Plant in the 
United States. 

Largest Soap Factory in the South. 

Largest Box Factory in the World. 

A Marked Social and Club Life. 

Largest Live Stock Market. 

Largest Exclusive Organ Factory in the 
World. 



LOUISVILLE 




CITY HAI.I, 



Louisville is the .gateway to the South, the pride of a proud peojile, and the source of much 
of their supply and demand. After the war, Louisville, beinj.^ more alile than any other Southern 
city, gave of her credit and money to the Southern business man and planter. The great help 
of that act, with her location and business energy and growth, has given Louisville a warm 

place in the Southern heart and made her 
the leading business center. 

Not only is Louisville a leader in the 
thought and sentiment of the South, but its 
great advantages in location, its water and 
railroad connections, gives it a unique place 
among the cities of the country. To reach 
the great South's wants and needs, one must 
do so through the numerous trade avenues 
of Louisville. No city lives in the minds of 
the millions of people in that great territory 
south of the Ohio river as does Louisville. 
Louisville plows, wagons, leather, tobacco, 
whisky, cement, (lour, cotton goods, beef, 
pork, plumbing goods, soap, groceries, hard- 
ware, clothing, shoes, etc., find markets, by 
rail and water, wherever people buy and sell. 
Louisville has nearly |85,O00,0ob invested 
in her factories, having in operation 3,000 
manufacturing establishments, with an out- 
put of i>()4,U60,823 lbs. in various articles and 
8,5SS,4()!( barrels and boxes amounting to 
$!)0,O00,O00. 

She employs 40,000 men and women at 
wages and hours so satisfactory that, since 
the universal strike of 1877, not a single strike has occurred of any importance. Homes in the 
suburbs are so cheap, so easily reached, that most workmen own their homes. There is very little 
or no tenement life in Louisville; fuel, light and water are very cheap. Situated on the greatest 
coal-carrying river in the world, and near the great gas and coal fields of Indiana and Kentucky, 
Louisville enjoys the great benefits of cheap fuel and light, with never a famine in either. 

The largest plow" factory in the country is in Louisville. A wagon factory turns out 140 
wagons per day. The largest jeans factory in the world is here. It is also the largest leaf tobacco 
market and whisky depot. Nearly 7.'),Oo6 tons of cast-iron pipe are made yearly, and large fac- 
tories of plumbers' goods have their home in Louisville. The stock market is large. One flour 
mill turns out 1, BOO barrels per day; and 24,000.000 pounds of soap are manufactured yearly. The 
L. & N. Railroad is now building 'the largest machine-shops in the world in the city limits, where 
thousands of workmen, at good wages, 
will have constant work. 

The bank clearings are over $550,- 
000,000 yearly, and the money market 
is on a firm basis. 

The jobbing trade is heavy in hard- 
ware, dry goods, drugs, clothing, 
shoes, etc. In some of them Louis- 
ville leads all other cities of the South- 
west. With her ten great railroads 
and their numerous branches, and the 
great waterway, this trade has pecu- 
liar advantages in Louisville; so much 
are these things considered that there 
are now a half million dollars being 
a<lded in new factories and extending 
old ones. 

It would be impossible to touch 
even, in this short article, all the fac- 
tors in the Falls City. The city lies 
central in the great Mississippi Valley 
— the greatest and richest territory in 
the world, yet only in its promising 
age. Between Chicago north, Pitts- 
burg east. New Orleans south, and St. 
Louis west. 




COl'RT HOUSK 



MANIFEST PROGRESS 



DANIEL F. MURPHY, CiTy ASSESSOR 



The development of manufacturing in- 
dustries in Louisville during the past j^ear 
has largely exceeded that of any year in 
the history of the city. Abundant evi- 
dences of our rapid growth surround us 
on all sides, especially in the eastern, west- 
ern and southern portions of the city, 
where numerous costly and substantial fac- 
tory plants abound. Within the last year 
forty-five entirely new factories have lo- 
cated here, and are in succssful operation, 
while many old ones greatly enlarged their 
plants, and increased their capacity. 

A significant fact to the credit of the city 
is that the variety of factories here is more 
extensive than in any other city of equal 
size in the country. The manufacturing 
establishments have increased from 1,500 
in 1890 to 3,000 in 1905—100 per cent in 
fifteen years; the number of employes from 
24,000 to 40,000, and the capital invested 
from $33,000,000 to $85,000,000. 

Within the past few years Louisville has 
outstripped all other cities, and is now the 
largest manufacturer of chewing and smok- 
ing tobacco in the world, employing 6,000 
hands in its preparation, and a capital of 
$12,000,000 in all its branches of trade and 
manufacture. 

Louisville is prominent in many other 
manufacturing lines, chiefly 

Distilling interests, employing $8,000,000 
capital, 1,500 employes. 

Brewing and malt interest, employing 
$5,000,000 capital, 1,800 employes. 

Railroad rolling stock construction (L. 
& N. R. R.), employing $5,000,000 capital, 
2,500 employes. 

Leather and tanned products, employing 
$4,000,000 capital, 1,500 employes. 

Manufacture of all kinds of clothing, em- 
ploying $3,500,000 capital, 2,500 employes. 

Foundry pipe and machinery, etc., em- 
ploying $3,000,000 capital, 3,000 employes. 

Oil refineries and fertilizers, etc., em- 
ploying $3,000,000 capital, 1,500 employes. 



Lumber and planing mill products, em- 
ploying $2,500,000 capital, 3,000 employes. 

Newspaper publishing and job printing, 
employing $2,500,000 capital, 2,200 em- 
ployes. 

Plows and agricultural implements, em- 
ploying $2,500,000 capital, 1,200 employes. 

Meat slaughtering industries, employing 
$2,000,000 capital, 1,100 employes. 

Manufacture of boxes and barrels and 
packing materials, employing $2,500,000 
capital, 2,500 employes. 

Manufacture of lime and cement, em- 
ploying $2,000,000 capital, 1,000 employes. 

Live stock industries, employing $1,750,- 
000 capital, 1,000 employes. 

Plumbing supplies and heating materials, 
employing $1,250,000 capital, 1,000 em- 
ployes. 

Textile industries, employing $1,500,000 
capital, 1,800 employes. 

Manufacture of furniture, etc., employ- 
ing $1,000,000 capital, 1,500 employes. 

Manufacture of saddlery, etc., employing 
$1,000,000 capital, 1,000 employes. 

We occupy fortunately an exceedingly 
favorable location, which enables us to 
command the trade of the South, a ter- 
ritory rich in minerals, timber and agricul- 
ture, the development of which is progress- 
ing rapidly. Our facilities for cheap trans- 
portation of freight and fuel, both by river 
and rail, are unsurpassed. We have an un- 
limited supply of coal within easy access, 
and at lowest possible rates, a moderate 
climate, enabling work to be carried on 
throughout the entire year, cheap labor and 
cheap factory sites with all necessary rail- 
road connections. 

With all these natural advantages at our 
command we must continue our efforts — 
to attract capital — protect trade — encour- 
age manufacturers — and Louisville will 
soon be one of the largest manufacturing 
centers in the United States. 



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THE BANKING FACILITIES 

OF LOUISVILLE 



THE Louisville financial institutions are 
preponderant!}- mana.ijed conservatively 
and well, and are conducted in the inter, 
est of legitimate business enterprises. 
They offer more than average hanking facilities 
to the public. While Louisville in point of 
population, is the fourteenth city in the I'nited 
States, it ranks twelfth among the clearing- 
house centers of the countr}'. This shows that 
the people of Louisville, and of its tributary 
territor}', enjoj^ about 17 per cent more 
banking facilities than the average citizens 
of all the clearingliousc points in the 
United States. 

The Louisville Clearinghouse Association 
was started in 1875, and has proven a 
benefit to the banks and to the community. 
Its constitution is drawn upon highly con- 
servative and time-proven business prin- 
ciples, and by means of its supervising and 
managing cimimittecs, its influence for 
sound methods is felt bj' all members all 
the time. From its origin it has, like a 
barometer, steadily and surely indicated 
the fluctuations of the business interests of 
this city. Hence it will be interesting, in 
an article like this, to give some statistics 
of the business of the Louisville Clearing- 
house as they reflect upon Louisville busi- 
ness in general. 

I am indebted to the present affable and 
efficient manager of the clearinghouse, Mr. 
Isham Bridges, for the table upon which 
the following statistics are compiled and 
calculated. 

The following table presents the j^carly 
clearings since the beginning of 1876 to the 
end of 1904, covering a period of twenty- 
nine years. It shows the number of bank 
members, the total of clearings and the 
increases and decreases of the amount of 
clearings from vcar to vcar: 



21 


$107,349,171 






2U 


114,548,244 


6.7 




20 


107,125,874 




6.9 


20 


127,830,417 


19.3 




19 


149,502,914 


16.9 




20 


198.165,502 


32.4 




21 


193,669,491 




2.3 


21 


214,802.485 


10.9 




21 


211,261,852 




1.7 


22 


217,527,215 


3.0 




22 


233,282,262 


1.1 




22 


281,110.851 


20.5 




22 


301,159,336 


7.1 




23 


359,679,462 


19.4 




23 


400,181.266 


11.3 




23 


356,346.089 




10,9 


21 


390,754,598 


9.7 




21 


322,764,077 




17.4 


21 


309,613,718 




4.1 


17 


314,469,298 


1.6 




17 


286,352,121 




9.0 


17 


321,610.935 


i2..3 




16 


347,303,739 


8.0 




16 


413,289,334 


19.3 




14 


424,563.551 


2.7 




14 


462,031,893 


8.9 




14 


501,424,110 


8.6 




14 


529,241.195 


5.6 




14 


558.163,698 


5.4 





1876 

1877 

1878 

1879 

1880 

1881 

1882 

1883 

1884 

1885 

1886 

1887 

1888 

1889 

1890 

1891 

1892 

1893 

1894 

1895 

1896 

1897 

1898 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 . . 

1904 

Total increase 237.3 per cent 

Deduct total decrease 52.3 per cent 

Net increase 185.0 per cent 

The Clearinghouse Association started 
in 1875 with twenty-one banks as members. 
This number was decreased in 1880 to 
nineteen, then increased in 1889 to twenty- 
three, decreased in 1892 to twenty-one, 
again reduced, after the 1893 panic, to sev- 
enteen, and since 1900 decreased to its 
present number of members, which is 
fourteen. 

While the increase in Louisville's clear- 
ings, calculated upon preceding, and ever 
advanced, records from year to year, shows 
only 185 per cent, it is nevertheless true 
that the actual clearings since 1875 have 
increased from $107,000,000 to $538,000,000 
in 1904, and are now five and one-tentli 
times as much as at the start. 

The individual clearings of the highest 
and the lowest bank were, compared with 
the whole clearings, 10.17 per cent in 1875 
and 14.93 per cent in 1904 for the highest 
bank and .64 per cent in 1875 and 1.19 per 
cent in 1904 for the lowest bank respect- 
ively, sliowing a slight preponderance of 



LOUISVILLE— NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIVE 



gain in business for the smaller banks, as 
a result of the diminution of the total num- 
ber of banks. 

Divided into periods of five years each, 
the record of the clearinghouse shows aver- 
age amounts of annual clearings of $121,- 
000,000 for the period of 1876 to 1880, $207.- 
000,000 for the period of 1887 to 1885, $305,- 
000,000 for the period of 1886 to 1890, $338,- 
000,000 from 1891 to 1895, $358,000,000 for 
the period from 1896 to 1900, and $512,000.- 
000 annually for the four years from 1901 
to 1904. If w^e take the average clearings 
for the twenty-nine years, which is $308,- 
927,999 yearly, or almost exactly $1,000,000 
each working day, as shown, and call it 
100 points, the clearings for the first 
period represent 39, for the second 67, for 
the third 102, for the fourth 109, for the 
fifth 116 and for the present period 166 
points. Thus it will be seen that the busi- 
ness of Louisville has steadily and satis- 
factorily increased. The phenomenal in- 
crease of the first dscade was due to the 
acceptance and natural development of 
clearinghouse methods, as well as to the 
impetus upon trade and traffic after the 
resumption of specie payments, the rather 
slow forward movement of the second de- 
cade is accounted for by the financial panic 
of 1893 and its consequences, and the high- 
ly satisfactory advance of the present de- 
cade, upon steadily growing averages, is 
due, and reflects, the present era of pros- 
perity which Louisville enjoys in common 
with the rest of the country in a high 
degree. 

In conclusion I reiterate that this city 
enjoys unsurpassed banking facilities. Its 
banks are known for their conservative 
policy and have attracted large contribu- 
tions from the business communities of 
the surrounding country. Their manage- 
ment is in the hands of tried and experi- 
enced men, who have gone through finan- 
cial storms and panics, and gained inval- 
uable experience in successfully holding 
out against adversities. We have no Na- 
poleons of finance or glittering examples 
of dazzling successes in an ephemeral way 
among our old banking fraternity. The 
managers of nearly all our banks rather 
rely upon steadfastness of character, abil- 
ity and scrupulous conscientiousness than 
upon temporary sensational exploits. They 



would rather be the rock upon which the 
angry waves of financial disturbances 
break their force, and from which they may 
pour oil upon the troubled waters, and 
break the harm they do, than the skyrocket 
which dazzles the eye by its sudden brill- 
iancy, but momentarily disappears in hope- 
less oblivion. 

The old Latin proverb, "Si vult pacem, 
para bellum" — if you would have peace, 
prepare for war, is nowhere more advisable 
than in the banking business. In times of 
prosperity it behooves the prudent banker 
to look ahead and to prepare for times of 
adversity. Such times will come and fre- 
quently when least expected. The banker 
who is best prepared to meet such hard 
times, and who is willing and able to stand 
by his patrons in times of need, is the 
banker to intrust with your patronage. 

E. C. BOHNE. 




IvOUI.SVIIJ,E TRUST BUII.DING 



LOUISVILLE A HEALTHY CITY 



Dr. INI. K. ALLEN, Hkai.TH OFiacKR 



That this city compares favorably with 
any other large city in this country in its 
mortality rates there is no question. Mor- 
tality statistics gathered from a number of 
the principal cities fully bear out this state- 
ment, and especially is the comparison 
most favorable where estimates of pop- 
ulation are reached by perfectly fair and 
correct methods. Unfortunately some 
cities for the purpose of local adverise- 
ment, overestimate their population, and 
by using these false figures erroneous per- 
centages of their death rate are obtained. 
Such methods are unfair, and health de- 
partments throughout the country where 
the death rate is oDtained on such a basis 
place no value whatever upon such sta- 
tistics. The Census Bureau of the United 
States places the death rate of the city of 
Louisville for the year 1900 at 16 per 
thousand population. During the same 
year Atlanta had a death rate of 21.5; 
Baltimore, 21; Memphis, 20.9; Mobile, 26.3; 
Nashville, 22.9; New Orleans, 25.9; Wash- 
ington, 21.4; Cincinnati, 16.6, and so on. 
In the same report emanating from the 
Census Bureau it was said, "Not only is 
Louisville a healthy city, but it has been 
improving in this respect for many years, 
the number of deaths in 1900, wlien the 
population was 204,731, being 3,280, as 
against 3,162 in 1890. when the population 
was only 161,129. The annual death rate 
during the eleven years, beginning with 




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1890, was respectively as follows: 19.6, 18.7, 
20.0, 18.9, 17.7, 18.5, 17.7, 16.3, 15.7, 17.6 and 
16.0. Since 1900 our death rate has been: 
1901, 16.2; 1902, 16.3; 1903, 16.8. The Mod- 
ern Medical Science, a medical journal 
publislied in tiio city of New York, of date 
December, 1904, commenting on the an- 
nual report of the city Health Officer of 
Louisville for the fiscal year ended Sep- 
tember 1, 1904, says editorially, after 
quoting the following language: "Our 
death rate for the year just closed not only 
compares favorably with that of former 
years, but also with that of any other of 
the larger cities in this country who esti- 
mate their population on a fair and correct 
basis." "It is to be regretted that some 
large cities overestimate their population, 
which fact gives an erroneous death rate, 
thus destroying the value of their mortality 
statistics for comparative purposes. (From 
the Journal): "A merited rebuke accom- 
panies the statement of the reasonable and 
creditable death rate of 17.5. There are 
still other ways besides this of keeping 
down the ratio of death to population for 
local objects." — (Editor.) It will be ob- 
served from what has been said that the 
Census Bureau of the United States, as 
well as the medical press of the country, 
recognize the healthfulness of this city, 
and whw should not this be so? We have 
a climate which compares favorably with 
that of any other city. We have broad 
streets, good natural drainage and suffi- 
cient space for the growth of the city 
without the necessity of the erection of 
houses in close proximity, whereby over- 
crowding would be produced if this were 
not so. The soil on which the city is 
built is good. Our water supply is also 
good, and this will be much improved dur- 
ing the present year, when the water com- 
pany promises us filtered water. The sys- 
tem to be inaugurated will relieve the river 
water of many harmful agencies. One 
notable fact which contributes to the 
healthfulness of this city is that we do not 
have tenement crowding to the extent to 
which many of our larger cities are sub- 
jected. All" in all then, if the Health De- 
partment is active and aggressive and our 
citizens themselves are constantly alive to 
the importance of hj'gienic and sanitary 
regulations in their own homes, there can 
be no reason why Louisville will not con- 
tinue to rank as one of the healthiest cities 
in this countrv. Respectfully, 

M. K. ALLEN, 
Health Officer. 



LOUISVILLE— NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIVE 



OUR TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES 

Louisville is naturally adapted by loca- 
tion, natural resources and advantages to 
the extensive operations of the jobber and 
wholesale merchant, and the products of 
her soil and her mills find markets in all 
parts of the world. One of the main ad- 
vantages of Louisville as a distributing 
point is her excellent transportation facil- 
ities; it requires no argument to prove that 
railway tracks are among the chief factors 
as well as the chief elements of prosperity, 
as railway companies do not lay tracks for 
amusement. Ten great railway systems af- 
ford transportation facilities for Louisville, 
and their numerous branches and divisions 
when counted separately would double the 
number. In the first place, the geograph- 
ical location of Louisville is the most for- 
tunate. It is located on what might be 




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5j^«irtMf'%»i^ 




ARMORY FIRST KENTUCKY INFANTRY 

termed the dividing line between the North 
and South, easily accessible from every 
side, with the great highway of the Ohio 
always insuring the cheap transportation, 
and with her numerous railways stretching 
out in every direction, make the city a most 
advantageous place for the extensive oper- 
ations of the jobber and wholesale mer- 
chant. Besides her mercantile fraternity is 
well known and respected for their enter- 
prise, equitable and progressive commercial 
methods, and superior business ability. She 
has many houses of national and even inter- 
national importance, whose commercial 
transactions have long ago overstepped the 
boundary of local and territorial trade, 
which are making Louisville known to all 
sorts and conditions of men as a trading 
and distributing point "par excellence," and 
it is doubtful if there is another community 
on the face of the earth, taking all things 
into consideration, which presents so 
abundant and propitious a field for jobbers 
and wholesalers as Louisville. 



TODD BUILDING 



LOUISVILLE GROWING. 

The past decade has witnessed one of the 
largest building eras of which any city can 
boast, the total yearly expenditure in this 
direction exceeding millions of dollars, and 
showing as the result many buildings of 
which the greatest Commonwealth might 
well be proud. No city in the country pre- 
sents a finer or more substantial class of 
buildings in brick, stone, iron and steel. 
This city contains to-day several fine ex- 
amples of many-storied buildings and a 
word of praise is due to our Louisville 
architects for the variety, correctness and 
beauty of their designs. 



LOUISMLIvE— NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIVE 



REAL ESTATE INTERESTS. 

In many cities in the United States the 
rise in real estate values is not indicative 
of increased prosperity, but merely of 
somewhat great inflation. This is not the 
case in Louisville, where values rise and 
fall according to the legitimate demand, and 
these consequently present a true inde.x of 
the conditions prevailing at the moment. 
Everything has remained upon a sound 
basis, and purchasers and investors outside 
the city buy and sell through reliable agents 
here with the same facility as if personally 
conducting their operations. Those who 
purchase real estate in Louisville and its 
vicinity do so almost invariably with the 
intention of building, and, therefore, are at 
once interested in the citj^'s well being an 1 
prosperity. Perhaps there never was a 
time when greater opportunities were of- 
fered to all classes of investors than at 
present to purchase realty either for specu- 
lation or investment. The splendid cable 
and electric systems have greatly enhanced 
the values of residence property in the 
suburbs, and enable the small salaried and 
working classes to possess their homes far 
from the noise, smoke and dust of a great 
city, while within easy reach of its stores 
and markets. There need be no anxiety 
regarding the opportunities which exist in 





WEI.SSINOKK (.Ari.l;i: k I ATAKIM INT HOUSE 

and around Louisville for obtaining desir- 
able locations for factories or homes, and 
investors unacquainted with Jefferson coun- 
ty will be surprised at the reasonable 
prices that prevail. To those in possession 
of realty here we say, "Hold," and to those 
who have none we say, "Buy," and with 
ordinary judgment in each, the results 
should be advantageous. Building associa- 
tions are most important accessories to 
transactions in suburban realty, and un- 
questionably destined to aflfect Louisville 
in the near future as powerfully as they 
have in Eastern cities in the past. 



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OUR RETAIL TRADE. 

A short walk through thoroughfares 
lined with manifold "emporiums of trade" 
of every description of commercial en- 
deavor will soon convince the vistor that 
Louisville is a mercantile center of no 
mean importance. We can justly say that 
in few cities can there be found so com- 
plete and excellent a business complement 
and that in our stores can be found every 
variety of goods, from every quarter of the 
civilized globe. That trade is brisk and 
constantly increasing in volume is evi- 
denced by the frequency with which new 
institutions are established here and the 
rapidity with whch they e.xpand and grow. 
The value of the city as a business loca- 
tion is becoming daily more widelj- rec- 
ognized and taken advantage of. 



LOUISVILLE— NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIVE 



OUR AGRICULTURE. 

The foundation for the establishment and 
successful growth of the city of Louisville 
rests on a substantial bed rock of natural 
resources, as surrounding it for hundreds 
of miles are lands of sufficient area to fur- 
nish homes for all of the population that 
can be engaged in its development, with 
soil as fertile and as choice for fruit and 
farming as can be found in this or any other 
State. Kentucky is truly a farmer and 
home land. Its grains are the heaviest, its 
grasses the most nutritious and its fruits 
the most delicious. She is the banner to- 
bacco State of the Union, having sold 
through our local markets last year about 
200,000,000 pounds of tobacco, and also she 
is a leader in the whisky industry of the 
country, and her products are in the mar- 
ket far beyond its borders, because of their 
excellence. One may have seen the valley 
of the Nile, for ages "the granary of the 
world." He may have roamed amid the 
rich plantations on the Caribbean shores, 
where the wondrous soil yields almost 
spontaneously every grain, grass, vegeta- 
ble and fruit necessary for human sus- 
tenance and luxury; he may have trav- 
ersed the famous Scioto valley, the paradise 
of Ohio, and the far-famed Red river valley 



of Dakota, with its mighty wheat fields 
stretching away till all around the blue 
sky meets the heads of golden grain. He 
may have grown familiar with all the so- 
called garden spots of earth, but there are 
still amazements for him in Kentucky. No 
more overflowingly bounteous golden grain 
fields or heavier laden vines and fruit trees 
ever gladdened the heart and pocket of 
sun-browned husbandman with hundred- 
fold harvests. No greener pastures ever 
feasted the frolicsome colt, or fatted the 
festive gentleman calf. 



FRATERNAL. 

Our fraternal and social orders are the 
pride of the city and add much to its met- 
ropolitan prestige and standing. They com- 
prise every form of high-class politcal, re- 
ligious, social and secret societies, whose 
ensemble includes the pick of our best and 
most public-spirited citizenship and busi- 
ness manhood. Their many excellent en- 
tertainments and social functions are a 
source of much enjoyment and credit to 
our city and their influence on the general 
character of our public and privat-" )'fe is 
potent and beneficial. 




THE THREE BRIDGES TH.\T SPAN THE OHIO RIVER AT I.OUISVII^I,E 



LOUISVILLE— NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIVE 



OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM. 

Louisville's school system is one of her 
chief glories. The school buildings are 
roomy, well built, modern houses, some of 
. them architecturally handsome. There are 
four high schools, two normal schools, one 
commercial school and forty-nine district 
schools; of these one high, one normal and 
eleven district schools are exclusively for 
colored children. The boys' high schools 
are equal in management and all facilities 
for instruction to simlar institutions any- 
where. In addition to the above, there are 
provided for children of school age, who 
have to work, six night schools, four for 
white, and two for colored children. There 
is a free kindergarten association main- 
tained by some benevolent ladies, which, be- 
sides maintaining a number of kindergar- 
tens, has fitted many teachers for kinder- 
garten work through its training class. 

There are several good private schools 
for boys and girls respectively, mainly de- 
voted to preparing their pupils for college, 
and three well equipped business colleges 
furnish opportunities for young men and 
women to acquire a business education. 
Among the most noted of Louisville's insti- 
tutions of learning are the medical colleges, 
of which tliere are five, and the law school. 





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There are also a college of pharmacy, a 
dental college and two theological semi- 
naries. Two hundred churches and mission 
houses afiford facilities for worship for all 
creeds, and a number of excellent infirm- 
aries are maintained by them. The Young 
Men's Christian Association owns a fine 
house with a well-equipped gymnasium at- 
tached, and the Business Woman's Club, 
which looks after the interests of young 
women who earn their living in business 
liouscs, is a flourishing institution. The 
Industrial School of Reform, the City Hos- 
pital and the Home for the Aged and In- 
firm are well conducted institutions that 
do credit to the city. Louisville has five 
tiicaters, several social clubs and a large 
number of first-class hotels. It has long 
been noted for the beauty of its residences, 
also a notable feature which adds greatly 
to its attractiveness as a residence city, is 
its admirable and extensive system of parks. 



Louisville and Kentucky at 
THE WORLD'S Fair 



A CROWNING triumph for Louisville 
in 1904 was Kentucky's participa- 
tion in the St. Louis World's Fair. 
The movement looking to the 
State's representation in this greatest of all 
expositions had its inception in Louisville, 
which, joining hands with every section of 
the Commonwealth, builded a monument 
to the State's commerce and arts and natur- 
al resources that dying years can not crum- 
ble. Adding glory to Kentucky's glory, 
fame to Kentucky's fame, it made a place 
for itself in this year book — chronicle of 
the success of the Falls City for the twelve- 
month period that brings us to the good 
year 1905. 

Thirty-odd thousand dollars was raised 
by private subscription by the Kentucky 
Exhibit Association, organized in Novem- 
ber, 1902, with Arthur Y. Ford, of Louis- 
ville, now a 'director of the Commercial 
Club, as president, which amount was sup- 
plemented by a State appropriation of 
$75,000 in January, 1904. With this joint 
fund, Kentucky erected an attractive State 
Building that easily became the most popu- 
lar — the Missouri Pavilion excepted — on the 
World's Fair grounds, and collected, in- 
stalled and maintained fifteen praiseworthy 
exhibits in the department palaces. 

The Kentucky building and each of the 
State's exhibits spoke an invitation to the 
home-seeker, the laborer, the capitalist; 
spoke of the opportunities of a new State 
with the home life of an old State; spoke 
of fertile soil, splendid climate, varied pro- 




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FEMAI^E HIGH SCHOOI, 

ducts, cheap fuel, contented labor, good 
schools, good colleges, good roads, good 
people, cheap timber lands, oil lands, coal 
lands, clay deposits, rich lead and zinc, 
cheap raw material, low taxes, cheap trans- 
portation, growing industries. 

Kentucky's exhibit pointed to the fact — - 

That with an area of 41,283 square miles 
there are less than 1,500 square miles unfit 
for agriculture. 

That this solid sheet of farming surface 
is, in large part, underlaid by mineral stores 
of great value, the rare association of fertile 
soils with mineral deposits of notable ex- 
tent and value. 

That in acreage of hardwood forest the 
State still stands among the first, and it is 
rich in some of the softer woods. 

That the State has an aggregate of 15,680 
square miles of coal-bearing measures, per- 
haps a larger area of persistently workable 
high-grade bituminous coal than has any 
other State. 

That coking coal (one to four scams) 
occurs in not less than ten counties of the 
Eastern field, eight of them containing as 
high-grade coking coal as is known to 
this country. 

That in the Western Kentucky field two 
coking seams, remarkably persistent in 
thickness and quality, are found in seven 
counties. 

That in the number, size and quality of 
its cannel coal pockets, Kentucky stands 
first among the States. 



LOUISVILLE— NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FI\^E 




THK WAI.NUT ST. BAPTIST CHURCH 

That there are four definite iron ore hori- 
zons in the State. 

That rich deposits of lead, zinc and fluor- 
spar have been found in widely separated 
parts of the State, and development is going 
on rapidly. 

That Kentucky has stone — gray, buff and 
cream-colored — admirably suited for struct- 
ural and certain sculptural purposes, in in- 
exhaustible quantities; in quality equal to 
the best in the world; in varieties greater 
than found in almost any other section, 
and as yet practically untouched. 

That Kentucky is rich in a great variety 
of clays, including potter's and fire-clays of 
exceptionally high quality, and vitrifying 
brick clays of proved excellence, and that 
comparatively little attention having been 
paid to such deposits in the past, the State 
is practically a virgin field for the clay man- 
ufacturer. 

That in number of productive oil hori- 
zons, Kentucky is fortunate, with reason to 
believe that the petroleum industry will 
eventually become one of the most impor- 
tant in the State. 

That Kentucky has enough of the finest 
rock asphalt to build a street sixty feet 
wide around the world, its value having 
been demonstrated in many cities. 

That the forests of Kentucky have been 
fortunately preserved by the barriers of 



naliux', hul tlic improvement of the water- 
ways and the penetration of the territory 
by railroads rapidly opening up to the out- 
side world these rich forests, make the 
present a most propitious time for investors 
to investigate. 

That Kentucky's forests offer a solution 
to the problems confronting the immigrant 
with little means, who is in search of a 
home, as in many counties timber land may 
be purchased, cleared and the logs sold 
for more than enough to pay for the land, 
which maj'- then be cultivated successfully. 

That Kentucky raises more tobacco and 
a larger variety of types than any other 
State in the Union or any country in the 
world. 

That for chewing and smoking purposes, 
Kentucky tobacco is admittedly the finest 
that grows, a statement eloquently attested 
by the fact that almost every nation upon 
the globe comes to it for some type or 
other of tobacco. 

That with a school system that has con- 
stantly improved for a century and a quar- 
ter, Kentucky may invite immigration with 
the assurance that the children will find 
schools the equal of those in any State. 

That ninety per cent, of the hemp of the 
United States is grown within her borders. 

That farming methods in Kentucky are 
steadily on the advance, within the past ten 




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LOUISVILLE— NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIVE 




MANUAI, TRAINING SCHOOL, 

years scientific agriculture having been 
greatly promoted through the efforts of the 
State Experiment Station. 

That Kentucky's live stock has no supe- 
riors and few equals. 

That Kentucky offers unusual attractions 
to those who desire to engage in manu- 
facture. 

That Kentucky is not a tax-ridden State, 
her citizenship being of the highest type, 
and hers being a peace-loving, home-loving, 
enterprising people. 

The awards secured by Kentucky tell the 
truest story of the success of the State's 
representation. She received a total of 588 
prizes and medals. Of these, 318 — repre- 
senting a total of $21,646 in premiums — 



were on Kentucky live stock. Twelve grand 
prizes were voted Kentucky by the Inter- 
national Jury of Awards; and 52 gold med- 
als, 81 silver medals, 131 bronze medals. 
Fifty were given on tobacco, 66 on minerals, 
85 on agriculture, 10 on whisky, 16 on horti- 
culture, 15 in education, 23 on forestry, etc. 
"Louisville Day" at the exposition was 
celebrated on September 21 in the Kentucky 
Building, special trains carrying the com- 
mercial organizations of Louisville. The 
attendance was large, and the event in every 
way successful. 



ABOUT KENTUCKY 

Kentucky may be said to comprise in its po- 
pulation the most distinctive bod}' of English- 
speaking people of the Anglo-Saxon stock, not 




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only of any State in the Union, but of any civil 
division in the world. Out of a population of 
2,147,174, as shown by the census of 1900, there 
are only 50,249 persons of foreign birth, most 
of whom are confined to the cities and a few 
counties, many of the counties having none. 
The white population is principally of English 
and Scotch descent, with a fair proportion of 
Irish blood. The State has contributed largely 
of its population to the settlement of the States 
to the north, south and west, and both in the 
emigrants and in the home stock, as shown by 
the long list of distinguished names which have 
filled the roll of men in all stations of life — in 
field, forum and pulpit — ithasbeen demonstrat- 
ed, that the conditions in the State are as favor- 
able for the development of mental and moral 
qualities as for physical excellence. 



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AS A FINE WHISKY MARKET. 

Nearly a halt million barrels! In actual 
figures, 436,013 barrels of whisky were 
siiipped from Louisville last year. 

Reducing this number of barrels to gal- 
lons the shipments amounted to about 21,- 
000,000 gallons, showing that Louisville 
handles one-sixth of the total consumption 
of the United States and that this city is 
now by far tlie largest market for line 
wiiiskies in the United States. 

Estimating the value of these shipments 
at $80 per barrel, a low valuation, the 
money value of these shipments was $36,- 
881,040. 

The following table shows total ship- 
ments from this market for three years, and 
illustrates the growth of the business: 

1904. 1903. 1902. 
Barrels. Barrels. Barrels. 

January 31,439 31,450 31,281 

February 34,225 

March 38,479 

April 35,488 

May 32,633 

June 26.861 

July 25.323 

August 30,714 

September 39,088 

October 45,130 

November 50,454 

December 46,179 



30, 1904, was 23,070,162 gallons, of which 
11,598,394 gallons were produced in the 
Louisville internal revenue district. 




Ohio Falls. 



29,412 


31,615 


32,249 


31,236 


29,513 


28,714 


26,406 


28,584 


27,183 


23,502 


22,686 


21,223 


27.920 


21,019 


37.994 


32,108 


45,574 


36,282 


40.078 


31,213 


41,176 


36,419 



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State 



436,013 391,641 352,196 

total production of whisky in the 

)f Kentucky for the year endini; June 




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NoUTUN IMIKMAIIV. 



Forty New Factories in One Year 



Nothing illustrates more potently the fact 
that Louisville is rapidly becoming an in- 
dustrial center than the announcement that 
fort}' new factories were started in Louis- 
ville during the past year, while many an 
old one largely increased its capacity. 
There were 6,000 more persons employed 
by manufacturers than in 1903. the new cap- 
ital invested amounted to $5,000,000, and 
there were $3,000,000 more paid out for 
wages than in 1903. 

The excellent railroad facilities and con- 
venient river location are two matters that 
appeal to manufactuerrs, who are all ship- 
pers, of course; the cheapness of fuel, to- 
gether with the never-failing supply, have 
great weight; the five years' exemption from 
local taxation is of interest, although it is 
a temporary advantage; while the hope of 
an equable taxing system under the con- 
stitutional amendment recently adopted is 
an attractive feature and will be permanent; 
the nearness to raw material of nearly every 
description, v\'ithout the necessity of re- 
moteness from the markets, throw much 
weight on the scales in favor of Louisville. 

Undoubtedly Louisville is the ideal loca- 
tion for manufacturers, and every day this 
is being realized more and more fully all 
over the continent. 

And these factories are humming along 
to their fullest capacity to keep up with 
their orders, many of them operating 
throughout both the day and night. The 
jobbers of Louisville are enjoying the big- 
gest seasons for sales they have ever 
known; her bank clearings show what a 
vast amount of money has been handled by 
her merchants, a large increase over any 





Bathing Beach, Shawnee Park. 

previous year; railroad earnings are on the 
increase; revenue collections have been 
greater than ever before, being surpassed 
in only one district in the United States, 
and fewer proceedings in bankruptcy (either 
voluntary or involuntary) have been insti- 
tuted than in any other like period. All of 
these things point to the one fact that the 
motto of the city of Louisville, "Progress," 
is to-day being exemplified in the highest 
degree. 



St. Anthony's Hospital. 



THE MEAT PACKING INDUSTRY. 

As a packing-house center, Louisville is 
rapidly growing in importance. She now 
ranks well at the top. At least 400,000 hogs, 
representing a cash value of $4,000,000, and 
about 25,000 head of cattle, value over 
$1,000,000 to raisers, were packed in the 
Louisville market last year. Something like 
40 per cent, of the meat and lard thus pro- 
duced was sent to foreign countries. 

Local packers ascribe the remarkable 
growth of the industry chiefly to the quality 
of cattle and hogs secured for this market, 
although it is admitted that Louisville's ex- 
cellent shipping facilities are a prominent 
factor. 

Louisville's supply of live stock is drawn 
from Kentucky, Southern Indiana, Illinois 
and Tennessee, thus benefiting a wide ter- 
ritory. The cattle raised in this section, 
especially the "Bluegrass," are unsurpassed. 
Pork packed in Louisville is known through- 
out the world as the highest grade. East- 
ern buyers come into this market and pay 
a premium on live stock raised in this 
section. 

The total number of hogs packed in Louis- 
ville for the year ending March 1, 1904-05, was 



LOUISVILLE— NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FI\X 



4U4,87i», as compared with 81!»,il(>i) iti l'.l(i;!-(»4 ; 
an increase of SJr.illO. 

"Hio superiority of the Iiogs packed 
liere," (pioting a local packer, "is due to the 
fact that growers in tills part of the coun- 
try mature their JK^gs at about 200 pounds, 
producing in this way a clean, meaty animal, 
devoid of liie lu'a\-y fat found on the West- 
ern and Xorth western hogs that are ma- 
tured at from 300 to 350 pounds. Our rej)- 
resentatives in England and on the con- 
tinent report an increasing demand for the 
meats from this market. In most of the 
larger restaurants and cafes in Chicago, the 
center of the packing industry, Louisville- 
cured meats are included on the bill of 
fare." 



ONE .AND .A .QUARTER .MILLION 
HEAD OF LIVE STOCK MAR- 
KETED IN ONE YEAR. 

During the past j-ear over 1,250,000 head 
of live stock were marketed in Louisville, 
representing a valuation of nearly $25,000,- 
000. The receipts of cattle were, in round 
numbers, 125,000 head;' hogs, 850,000 head, 
and sheep and lambs, 275,000 head. 

Louisville is a good market for all grades 
of cattle, and, being a great distributing 
point for feeding cattle, farmers and stock 
men from all the Ohio Valley States come 
here everj' year to buy their feeding cattle. 
Between 30,000 and 35,000 cattle are fed in 
Kentucky every j'ear on distillery slop, and 
this particular branch of the industrj'^ seems 
to be increasing each year. 

There was scarcely a day in 1904 without 
orders here from h'astern packers, wdio 
bought on this market during the year 
350,000 hogs. 

Louisville has made more progress in the 
way of becoming a lamb market than in any 
other branch of the live stock industry dur- 
ing the past few years. 




Enthance to Canal. 



PECULIAR TO LOUISVILLE. 

The Government maintains at Louisville 
a marine hospital for river men. 

At the falls of the Ohio the Government 
maintains the only life-saving station on the 
inland waters of America, outside of the 
Great Lakes. 

At Shawnee Park, on the western limits 
of the cit}% there is a magnificent bathing 
beach, and during the summer months hun- 
dreds of citizens daily take a plunge in the 
river. The beach is a long, sandy stretch 
and furnishes an excellent play-ground for 
the children. It is cared for under the 
auspices of the Board of Park Commis- 
sioners, and each year sees it grow in pop- 
ularitj'. 

The curious wdio visit Louisville are often 
taken to beautiful Cave Hill Cemetery for 
the express purpose of viewing the grave of 
"Jim" Porter, the physical giant, whose 
home was in Louisville. Porter w-as nearly 
eight feet tall, and the house in wliich he 
resided still stands in Shippingport, the sec- 
tion of the city wdiich marks the site where 
General George Rogers Clark landed in 
Louisville and built the first houses. 




Tobacco Warehouses. 



Many Business Organizations 



Thirty-odd commercial, industrial and 
Imancial organizations in Louisville insure 
the citizen adopting this as his future home 
that he will find a body of energetic, enter- 
prising men formed to promote in a general 
way the particular business in which he may 
be engaged or hopes to engage. The Com- 
mercial Club may truthfully be called the 
parent body — the organization that com- 
bines in one the energies of all; that fights 
for all the battles of progress for the entire 
city. 

In it are united the business and profes- 
sional interests of the city, and the per- 
sonnel of its membership represents an ag- 
gregation of "hustlers" in which the city 
may well take pride. The membership of 
the club is over 1,500, and the battle cry of 
the Membership Committee is "On to 3,000." 
The President of the Club is Mr. R. A. Mc- 
Dowell, a leading attorney; Mr. W. T. C. 
Cross is first Vice-President, Mr. R. W. 
Bingham, second Vice-President and Mr. 
R. E. Hughes, Secretary. Mr. Fred Levy is 
Chairman of the Publicity and Promotion 
Committee. 

Within recent years scores of new indus- 
tries have been brought to the city, and 
credit for this excellent showing is due in a 
very great measure to the Commercial Club. 
The organization is striving continually to 
advance the interests of both the city and 
State. It was the chief factor in securing 
the legal provision for the exemption from 
taxation of infant industries, and its influ- 
ence has brought about excellent and mod- 
ern laws, which now govern business in the 
Commonwealth. At the present several 
large plants are imder construction, and 
these will give employment to thousands of 
persons. The Commercial Club was the 
guiding hand which steered them to Louis- 
ville. Conspicuous among these is the new 
plant for the manufacture of Portland 
cement. Over a million dollars is being 
expended in building the plant, while ad- 
joining this factory another company is es- 
tablishing a plant for the manufacture of 
con&rete building blocks. 

The Club holds open meetings monthly 
at the different large hotels for the public 
discussion of live topics. At these meetings 
the social side of business, peculiar to Ken- 
tucky, is freely introduced between pufifs 



from good cigars — Louisville made — and 
light refreshments. Many big improve- 
ments of the city have grown out of these 
open meetings. 



LOUISVILLE'S FORTUNATE TAX 
SYSTEM. 

In addition to the advantageous offer 
made by Louisville to exempt entirely from 
taxes for a term of five years all new fac- 
tories locating here; under a recent act of 
the Kentucky Legislature the city is author- 
ized to assess local taxes either ad valorem, 
as at present, or by a license system-. This 
makes it possible to relieve the wholesale 
trade and manufacturing firms of nearly all 
of the burden of taxes, and city ordinances 
now being drawn will result in making 
Louisville probably the most advantageous 
point in the entire country for the location 
of factories and similar big enterprises. 



BEAUTIFUL-LY SITUATED. 

The Gatewaj' to the South — Louisville — 
is situated on a high plateau which gives it 
ample room for expansion. There are many 
miles of paved, well-drained and beautifully 
shaded streets, regularly laid out, and a 
series of magnificent parks encircle the 
city. Here the hardy trees of the North 
grow side b}^ side with much of the more 
delicate forestry of the South. In this proof 




Louisville Medical College. 



LOUISVILLE— NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIVE 



is given of tlic delightful and equable cli- 
mate. Exertmes* of temperature are rare. 
The air is pure and wholesome. The win- 
ters arc short and comparatively mild and 
the autumns are long and delightful. Epi- 
demics and miasmatic fevers are unknown. 
Proof of the healthfulness of the place is 
found in the low death rate. The drainage 
system, including some ninety miles of 
sewers, has no little to do with this report 
of the city's healthfulness. 



SOCIAL SIDE OF LIFE. 

From a social standpoint Louisville is 
without a superior in the country. Many of 
the foremost families of the Bluegrass 
State reside here, and the broad avenues of 
the residence districts are lined with mag- 
nificent houses, where Kentucky hospitality 
holds full sway. There are numerous clubs, 
whose rosters contain names of men known 
to the social circles in cities from the Atlan- 
tic to the Pacific. In this connection may 
be mentioned Louisville's Horse Show As- 
sociation, whose annual exhibition may be 
termed the opening of each social season. 
This function in many respects rivals the 
annual event at Madison Square Garden in 
New York. There is a delightful Country 
Club, and in addition there are two boat 
clubs, a golf club, a tennis club, a gun club, 
etc. 

Taken all in all. no more delightful city 
can be found in the country as a place of 
residence. None offers more advantages to 
the wealth}' man or the man with limited 
means, who is seeking a new location. The 




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city's growth is rapid and the field of activ- 
ity of the business man is widening. Every 
possible inducement is held out to bring the 
non-resident here and opportunities such as 
no other center affords are oflfered by the 
metropolis of Kentucky. 

About two hundred churches and mission 
houses of worship make Louisville a leader 
in this direction. Many hospitals and in- 
firmaries are maintained by the different 
church organizations, besides those owned 
by the city. There are five theaters. 



LOUISVILLE'S PARKS. 

The system of recreation spots which 
surround Louisville has probably not an 
equal in the entire country. Three mag- 
niticent reservations are found on the out- 
skirts, and these are now being connected 
by a beautiful boulevard which will encom- 
pass the entire land side of the city. There 
are quite a number of breathing spots in the 




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LOUISVILLE— NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FR^E 



interior of the city, the most prominent of 
which is Central Park, located in the heart 
of the fashionable residence district. The 
park occnpies a space equal to two city 
squares and is filled with native forest trees. 
In addition to these parks there arc a num- 
ber of well-kept play-grounds for the chil- 
dren of the city. The children's play-ground 
movement, when it started some years ago, 
found liberal support in the citizens of Lou- 
isville, and this city is recognized as among 
the first in the movement to make life 
pleasant for the little ones who are unable 
to go to the country during the summer 
months. 



FEW OF KENTUCKY'S POINTS OF 
INTEREST. 

— John Fitch, tlic inventor of the steam- 
boat, lies buried at Bardstown. 

— The grave of Zachary Taylor is located 
in a picturesque spot not far from the cor- 
poration line of Louisville. 

— In the Frankfort Cemetery is the grave 
of Daniel Boone, the most picturesciue of 
pioneer Americans. It is marked by a 
monument. 



— Some of the most beautiful mountain 
scenery t(j be found in x^merica is encoun- 
tered at Cumberland Gap, in the southeast- 
ern extremity of the State. 

— Frankfort, the capital of the State, is 
I'jcated in a section noted for its picturesque 
scenery. Frankfort was laid out in 1787. 
The State has made appropriations for a 
new million-dollar Capitol. 

— ^The Bluegrass region of Kentucky has 
long been a source of interest to strangers. 
It covers an area of about 10,000 square 
miles, and is located near the geographical 
center of the State. 

— .\aron Burr lived for a season in Frank- 
fort, and the site where some of the details 
of his conspirac}'^ for the Union of the South 
and Mexico in a single empire were worked 
out is now occupied b}' a handsome resi- 
dence. 

— An excursion up the Kentucky river 
carries one through scenery that is unsur- 
passed. Boats make the trip each week 
from Louisville, and the long, narrow, deep 
stream has been characterized as "the Hud- 
son of the West." 




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